The rise of e-reading — 21% of Americans have read an e-book. The increasing availability of e-content is prompting some to read more than in the past and to prefer buying books to borrowing them. — Summary of findings — One-fifth of American adults (21%) report that they have read …

Just how big are porn sites? — It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a fast internet connection must be in want of some porn. — While it's difficult domain to penetrate — hard numbers are few and far between — we know for a fact that porn sites …

Facebook e-commerce: the next big thing? — (Reuters) - A group of e-commerce start-ups, backed by some of the tech world's most pedigreed financiers, are betting that Facebook Inc can become an e-commerce powerhouse to rival Amazon.com Inc and eBay Inc. — As the world's largest social …

Twitter Nabs Googler Gabriel Stricker As Comms VP — Back in November, we reported that Sean Garrett, Twitter's Head of Comms, would be stepping down from his post. As he tweeted at the time, for the first time in his career, he would be taking more than a two week break between jobs.

Dropbox clamps down on users gaming HTC promo — Plans to retake snatched storage — Later this month, Dropbox plans on launching a promotion giving HTC phone owners with devices that include the HTC Sense 4.0 app 23GB of online storage free for two years.

Anonymous hacks hundreds of Chinese government sites — Summary: Anonymous has hacked hundreds of Chinese government websites. Some sites were just defaced, but others have had administrator accounts, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses leaked. — The hacktivist group Anonymous now has a Chinese branch.

Apple preparing overhaul of its online store — Apple has begun signaling to education shoppers that it plans to relaunch and overhaul its online store in the near future, making it easier to do business. — AppleInsider was alerted on Wednesday to the notice that can be found on the top …

Google to build its first thermal storage for a data center — Google has been more than creative when it comes to making its data centers more energy efficient and greener (seawater cooling and water recycling), and this week says it plans to implement a new energy efficient feature for a data center in Taiwan: thermal energy storage.

Amazon: £7bn sales, no UK corporation tax — Online retailer's British operation owned by company in Luxembourg which receives all payments for books, DVDs and other goods — Amazon.co.uk, Britain's biggest online retailer, generated sales of more than £3.3bn in the country …

Apple Holds Out as E-Book Pricing Settlement Nears — Talks to resolve U.S. and European price-fixing probes into e-books are heating up, with three international publishers inclined to settle the matter, according to people familiar with the matter. — Apple Inc., another target of the investigation …

Exclusive: HP Labs Head Prith Banerjee Leaving — Prith Banerjee, a Hewlett-Packard senior vice president — and for five years the head of its research and development organization, HP Labs — is leaving the company effective April 15, according to an internal company memo obtained by AllThingsD.

Nine publishers ready to embrace Zite's mobile news app — Almost a year after Zite's news reader app for the iPad drew the ire of several publishers — not to mention a few angry letters — the company is making friends with its former antagonists. Zite has now signed deals with eight publishers …

Nokia TV coming to Lumia smartphones in Finland — ESPOO, Finland - You may have seen some excitement online about a new TV service from Nokia for our Lumia smartphones. — We are very pleased to be able to confirm that Nokia TV, the latest Lumia entertainment offering from Nokia following Nokia Music …

HTC wins patent for Face Unlock — HTC has basically been granted a patent on Face Unlock. This is interesting, because that feature was first added to Android by Google, in its 4.0 release. It has subsequently made its way onto the very few devices that have so far been updated …